The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-19
BOSTON NEARNESS.
Romances Retailed in the Unromantic
West.


Correspondence Minneapolis Tribune
There is a story going around in print
about Boston man who was touring with
a party in California, and who gave a
capital illustration of the thrift of the pen
MES that enables men to lay up large stores
of dollars. He was in a San Francisco
hotel. and to the darby porter who corn
broomed him he rendered two whole cents
which he had carefully extracted from q
large aud fat pocketbook The boy protested
that money in that particular denomination
was not current in that region, where, as is
well known, the nicile is the smallest coin in
use. "Oh, keep it, said the great Boston
man, with grand indifference to the sac
rifice he was making; ''you may go East
some time" And | suppose the boy is now
carrying around in his pocket these two
coins as testimonial of Eastern magnih-
cence in tips and waiting for the chance
that he may one day have to spend them in
AN Eastern city. 1t is not easy to think of
men starting out on pleasure tours with their
ideas of expenditure narrowed down to that
basis, but we know that they do it. They
know before they start low much the hotel
bill will be in this place, how much the car
fare is from thence to thither, and they
never go over the limit which they place
upon the mouth of the pocketbook before
starting. What ever they can save from
the figured expense adds just so much to
their satisfaction, and il the dollar that they
have laid out for tips can be cut down to
eighty cents, their pleasure and their pride
in their own acuteness are heightened lust
twenty cents worth and that means a great
deal. One needn't wonder at Bostons
wealth after living here a short time and
seeing the small economies practiced by the
old fellows who have the most of it. And it
is in their hours of pleasure-their diversions
as in the case of the tourist at San Fran
cisco, that they show their economical bent
as well as in their business habits. Up at
Somerset Club, large and palatial Beacon
street house, the old cocks who amuse them
selves at the pool tables not long ago started
a crusade against the charge of sc. a cue
that was exacted for the benefit of the house.
They were willing TO pay something, but OBJ
jected to exorbitancy and now the price
has been reduced to Sc. a cue and the old
fellows are proud of the stroke of business
and the &c. a game that each one of
them has gained at the expense of the
Kitty / sometimes have occasion TO go
into the homeopathic pharmacy on Beacon
street which for years has been the head.
quarters of the medical fraternity who are
disciples of Hanhemann and for the thousands
OF Bostonians whose small ills they take
pleasure III doctoring for themselves. / am
almost never there without seeing some old
and respectable Bostonian come in and hold
out one or more small 10c vials to be
refilled with some particular medicament.
A new bottle and contents cost 10c. but If
you save the bottle and bring it back for
repenishment you have to pay only Sc, and
let NE tell you few of those &C. fragments
OF blown glass are lost among the old fami-
lies OF Boston.